colors photos drawn closer to the meridian believe that the g.o.p. hopefuls church in new delhi who took the baby her to carry election remote applause and the other maidens hotels believe that most of the you don't notice and cheerfully was punished but they protest kunitz. russia mourns the victims of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise on the cold dark river almost ninety deaths have been confirmed while the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water. and as the french parliament is due to vote on continued intervention in libya analysts highlight an inconsistency is in paris as a frantic attempt to find ways out of the death of. the assassination of the afghan president's brother powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking and deals a blow to nato to leave a stable country behind on its troops withdraw. also wiki leaks founder julian

assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him over to sweden on sex crime allegations which a supporter say are just a pretext to hand them over to the u.s. . and joining in the hesitation on global markets russian stocks and choose the session mixed with the obvious down point one percent nice mix up point three percent electricity shares leading the gains more in markets and the business news in twenty minutes i'll see that. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. reception rescuers are searching through a playroom in the sunken volga river cruise ship the bodies of dozens of children could still be among those trapped on the water almost ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure in the republic of parts on sunday now across one. brings us the latest from. here now some holmes

glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it a lot of the crews on those ships would have known the crew on the boat garcia. paying their respects now to the ship that sank. it's such a waste so stupid guys i'm sorry i couldn't speak c.e.c. . signifier you my friend's son was there she writes. it's all so hard to t.v. and so stupid that it could have happened. where ambulance workers are calling it was in that ship. the cruise to get it was only husband five year old

son which was pregnant or was to deliver his second degree in august it's not found yet only husband person has survived she interest until i hear. there are thousands of people that have turned out here to the river boat station in khazan which was to be the starting point of the bulgaria on its pleasure cruise up the volga they've come to lay flowers and to pay their respects to the people who drowned either trying to get out of the ship or those who were trapped in it in sunday's tragedy there's also a funeral starting to take place today of some of the victims twenty three families will start burying their relatives today from the sinking of the bulgaria ship but downstream from the rescue efforts are going on with divers going to the wreckage to try and search the rooms inside the ship they're moving into one of the most difficult parts of the top. aeration into a large play room and it's thought of

a large number of children there but that they simply weren't able to escape it and they all drowned in that room first came terror and tragedy we're going to get the gold leans a bed there are three of them in the cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when a wave crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he said he swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can't find my grandson or daughter in law. now amidst the grief comes the anger and the questions you are like give thanks do your jobs you don't understand anything. the bulgaria pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never be on the volga but all at the. past two hours before an awful condition of their donor preview

a chair before it set off would never have been allowed to say that growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement of the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked emergency exits and one point to go on the twenty three which travelled on his motives he wasn't called condition then because most serial times you're in or a trip would have to stop for something that is the engine was working poorly the vessel was first built in one nine hundred fifty five and as recently as last month was given official clearance to sail. despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they notice water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly all of this will come to the fore when the ship itself is raised to the surface for investigation but it's the hiring accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise told the real story we still hope

that our daughter has survived because you have seen an air pocket or some other way yet you still believe that a little angel is alive and still is that people were basically buried alive in time matthew coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone rescue workers will continue their efforts throughout the coming hours and days but hope has now gone they will find anyone else alive leaving just the shock and grief on boston r.t. the volga bank central russia. plenty of anguish but there's also now a growing anger following claims that two vessels passed a cruise ship as it was sinking but did nothing to help a criminal case now has been launched against those ships captains and don't forget we've got more on the human side of this tragedy at our website r.t. dot com and there you'll find an interview with the divers working at the scene

give a harrowing account of the underwater search for dozens of audience and all of that you can read that and of course further news and analysis our team. the french parliament is due to vote on extending the military campaign in libya that comes after recent remarks by its defense minister suggesting that the rebels should talk to colonel qadhafi this has sparked rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to back pedal on the campaign and as daniel bushell reports anxiety is indeed growing in paris that what was intended to be a short lived mission is turning into an embarrassingly long haul. well you can knock out that leaking stuff. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise i french foreign minister palin should pay both did france would win libya in quotes days or weeks the war's into

a fourth month no final round insides nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked a little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy and some about him for on a go for the whole west paris even admits all the libya's rebels put it on some somalia. went to libya for training within the last two or three years just documented we have to fly reports and everything else so it seems strange and many ways the whole western supports some of that i will groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. none

of. this is made to be go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops but expose predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan deadlock the moves are splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partly italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a study u. turn the fridge defense minister says the brutal should negotiate with gadhafi this is the same man that they're already indicted in the international court so. i mean from a legal point of view it's even possible role sure did the u.s. votes. bring havoc in libya to play said the latest tools you can support

so you love rove lloyd ling diplomats leaks. with elections just annoying months away psagot of voice is that a successful war could bryza wrecked his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion cold crash for france's deeply unpopular president. is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is turning into a marathon the new bush will all see paris right now or to discuss this story further we're joined live by john laughlin director of the interview and cooperation in paris thanks for joining us today so opponents accuse nicolas sarkozy of trying to score political points by indulging in. politics as the operation seems to have become a stalemate you think he's still happy with the role that france has play there. so i expect those very great concern in the palace as there is quite clearly across

the whole for the political class the fact is that france and britain and america went into this libyan adventure in it with exactly the same intention as they started the attack on yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety on both occasions they thought it would be a short campaign which would bring a dictator quick quickly to his knees well that's proved to be very wrong we're now in the second week of july and the campaign has been going on since march and we can see tensions are rising we can see that ministers are speaking out of turn and as you said in your report we can see that other members of the alliance notably in italy are saying that the bombing should should come to an end so basically the campaign is unraveling for france and i'm going to say that any enthusiasm enthusiasm it seems to me i think having that enthusiasm is waning by some of the players in this intervention but i france and shown is not averse to removing gadhafi by force of another paris admits that it had a contact with her tripoli but denies full scale negotiations is

a sign that france is is reconsidering its position. no i when i say i didn't mean to say that enthusiasm was waning i just meant to say that they are realizing that they're running out of options they have realized that the campaign has not been as quick as was expected there were indications by government ministers back in march that this bombing campaign would last a couple of weeks but we're now into the third or fourth month so it's not that enthusiasm is waning it's that they're desperately looking for a way out and these remarks. which you referred to in your question where he said that perhaps gadhafi could occupy a different room in a presidential palace but not have the same function as he has now this is this shows that paris is desperately seeking all possible options above all they are seeking an outcome which would save their fate that's really all it's about now they are they have to save their face they have to save face and they have to save france's face because obviously they went into this with the stated their move over

throwing him i know when you when you mentioned about what options are left on the table to try and achieve some some form of success here even the french government dropped so fail to break the deadlock what happens if a ground operation comes into the equation do you think that france would ever go that far. i must admit it seems very unlikely i think the remark by long game is more revealing of the real thinking that's going on now inside the elite a palace than inside the french government i think they desperately want to find some kind of solution some kind of out front but it's a negotiation between the rebels of something saving measure which would allow gadhafi to go. it's not entirely impossible that they would vote for a ground campaign but on the basis of the fact that the afghan campaign which of course france is also involved in is going badly it doesn't seem to me to be very likely instead these kinds of strange remarks that is coming out of the defense ministry i think they are showing the way forward i let's let me address the

financial side of the operation is officially cost france well over two hundred million dollars at least how why do you think it was surprised to get in on the operation with the financial crisis in europe greece portugal italy all on the brink of a of euro collapse that's not decision do you think. well i think it was an absolutely stupid decision but you're very right in your question to draw attention to the overall background i mean here we see a european union which very obviously cannot manage its own affairs which is falling apart at the seams who's founding member states and implementors of his single currency cannot afford to pay their own debts setting off on a military escapade which seems doomed to failure and which is going to cost them and has already cost them a huge amount of money it's absolutely ridiculous but then you know in a perverse way that's what makes their determination only the more dog get to continue just as their determination to shore up the euro the euro is completely doget they have invested infinite amounts of political capital in these ventures in

nato and in the european union and if they fail then these men's careers and reputation are completely on the line and that's why they're determined to find some way out of this mess john laughland director of the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris many thanks. but our nato is lying when it says its aim in libya is to protect civilians now that's the claim of independent journalist. you can see the full interview in just over an hour's time here in our team but for now it is a brief preview. starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account and this is just the beginning is there either a question of the rearrangement of this region and we are yet to see a series of wars in this case nato keeps line at every stage during the war impossible and nato would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes and this time

it's being done not to consume the stakes but to conceal the strategy. quarter past the hour now here in moscow you with r.t. with the leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to sweden the world's most famous whistleblower is wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations supporters fear that if sent to stockholm they'll just end up in the hands of the u.s. government we can live through all these laura and i think outside the court building for us and up north so as to what has been happening in the courtroom so far bring us up to date. well not so much has hired an entirely new legal team for this appeal he's but the old out old lot and he's got people who are much more have much more experience in criminal law and what they've done is taken a more conciliatory taken towards the courts and towards the charges that have been

have been made and they're much more concerned with the ins and outs of the whole e.u. your and specifically the european arrest warrant which it will allow its people to be extradited within the european union they are arguing that the european arrest warrant an i phone case is invalid because they've essentially discrepancies between. the allegations made and the testimonies of the two alleged victims there are four charges and they range between on lawful coercion to sexual assaults right down to rape and what the legal tate team is saying is that there is nothing in the alleged victim's statements that amounts to that there's no evidence of a lack of consent in the sexual relations that took place between them they say that three out of all of the allegations wouldn't amount to a crime in the u.k. and that the arrest warrant has been issued misrepresents all of that they're also saying it's important to remember that no charges have been brought against our phones he's wanted for questioning in sweden and so far no more and they're saying

has he been accused of anything is the prosecution put this case under way which of course it's not and that thing if it's not then the word it is the word is inherently not valid now this case is slated to go through wednesday if based appeal is with jets hit by the high courts that julian i saw says vowed to take the extradition case right to the supreme court and even on words to the european court of human rights but it should be noted that permission to go to the supremes court has to be granted it's not automatic and it will only be granted if this case is deemed to be in the public interest now of course he was last in court in february when the judge ruled against him and said there was no reason that he shouldn't be extradited to sweden where he would according to the judge there face a fair trial but our sons and his supporters have always been worried that one section going to sweden they would he would be sent to the u.s. that this case was politically motivated and of course have noted that

a grand jury in the u.s. is investigating wiki leaks and that some people in america would love to get their hands on ourselves and there are indeed significant links between the u.s. and sweden as detailed in my report. seven months since today in our souls was released on bail. he returns to the high court to appeal his extradition if he fails will be sent to sweden within ten days but many believe his feet won't touch the ground next stop america i think the the worry is that swing which in the past has extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were asked was seen as a possible you know top to. what awaits him in the us is this. a notorious neo conservative group help the swedish prime minister friedrich

reinfeldt wind reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of lawyer thomas sports trim his firm's representing the two women bringing the sex charges against us on in two thousand and one he was minister of justice and is alleged to have helped turned over to asylum seekers suspected by the cia of terror they were sent to egypt and allegedly tortured he might well want to stop wiki leaks from functioning. and some politicians. were. going on sweden wants us on sex crime charges the us is reportedly preparing an espionage case and it suits nor need to remember sweden just fine to be a conduit in this case and in others. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato sweden seen as an

easier way for the u.s. to get their hands on ourselves particularly after it requested the extradition of hacker gary mckinnon from britain which so far hasn't been granted but critics say the u.k. is just as much in computes with the u.s. as sweden has today in essence goes back to. course in london he'll have an eye on the british justice system which could save him from being extradited but the other eye will be firmly fixed on this we did that insist still needs a new trial if he was telling asylum seekers a visiting us to let's at least be tortured only our souls and he's still the wiki leaks no it was bill so we didn't start to hide your enemy's hearts he did. it without your life from moscow our business bulletin is right around the corner but for now you can always find more stories on our website of course r.t. dot com along with the latest news blogs and videos our histories to tell used what you can find there right now check out this this is amazing the latest video footage of a plane a rescue operation just hours after

a burning aircraft crash landed on a lake in eastern siberia. while i have a look for you cross the road i was always a street racer pushes his sports car to the max right here in central moscow but his need for speed ends in carnage. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial reports suggest cause i was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban has claimed responsibility i described it as one of its biggest achievements because i headed the kandahar province volatile region on the border with pakistan and was often accused in media reports of having links to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade. me a political analyst from kabul says the killing is a blow to the us. the past couple of years he confirmed that he had a good relationship with her american troops and american officials because of this

i think that americans lost one of their important members of the air to drop so that percent he was accused of being involved in corruption and then drac trafficking and then because of this many believe that the now american secret for another person to replace him. two years ago we spoke to karzai about how he sees the allegations against him. this it is a drug you know just things but they never in the last seven years know we challenge we challenge the international community and we challenge everyone to please bring the proof for that is that what you want to be free video section of our website that's where you can access the interview in full and of course a huge archive of other use for it but it is the far ok it's time now to check out some other world headlines for you in brief this hour a protestant raid has again turned violent in northern ireland's capital belfast as

bonfires were lit to mark the annual twelfth of july celebrations catholic protesters threw stones and firebombs of protestants and police security services attempted to separate the opposing factions and at least seven police officers were injured in the youths the top of july marks the end of the annual protestant marching season and it commemorates a something that century victory over a couple of places. outraged groups with allegations that reporters would be shut down news of the world tabloid secret information about the queen and hacked into private telephones this kind of spreads as other newspapers also belonging to rupert murdoch have been accused by former prime minister gordon brown of using criminals to obtain private information about him meanwhile senior police officers are being questioned of allegations that they obstructed view investigation into the journalists conduct i think the world rupert murdoch and his son james are to be called before parliament as part of an investigation into the news groups. all

right so well do stay with us for more here on our next business update with the. thanks very much rory hello and welcome to business artsy the italian stock market is under pressure after a heavy selloff pushed the regulator to ban short selling beers announcing the euro zone's third largest economy may request the bailout and the say an italian the fault could prove fatal to a weakened euro zone we asked chief economist at sachs of banks the jacobsen how soon it lee will be in a crisis. to some extent it already is because you see the c.d.s. prizes the insurance premium on italy's already going through the roof but in terms of say italy's and make greece is an extension of the truth to be honest italy has a different starting point italy does need per se to go to the capital markets and they have a much higher savings rate but i think it's more of your flexion of the fact that

the politicians in brussels and across europe have continued in trying to buy time and now they're getting hurt by the fact that compound of errors policy errors is now coming back to haunt them because the market needs some sort of resole they need some sort of those thirty packages put into place recent that really for even for greece being the point number one. it's one of the markets now crude is mixed as of injuries in the u.s. fall from peak levels fears of a softening the nano dominating the market with investors concern about u.s. economic recovery and the possibility of further monetary tightening in china never what we're seeing right now is brant declining sixty one cents a hundred sixteen and a half dollars per barrel lights just below ninety six that was put there. to stock markets now u.s. markets assuring the fly and soon the seas opened flaps to negative with worries about the fate of the debt crisis in europe still chilling investor interest that turns down by just not that point three percent european stocks are also seeing a heavy sell off of the sharp drop in the previous session investors are continuing

to dump financial and insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt fears and the statement by dutch finance ministers said the selective default on greek debt is possible is also not helping and while the market is nervous about the possibility of the crisis spreading to the in spain the cost of insuring spanish and italian government bonds as jump to record levels will see and backs down by percent. there in russia his the closing picture for tuesday's session the indices met ended next how the u.s. dampened one percent my six point three percent so it was something individual movers on the nice expert by. is lots unlike other financial stocks around the world the stock even managed to gain knowledge that point zero six percent gazprom is down point three as energy prices continued to ease throughout most of the session but a major gain on tuesday was a spot scare the coal mine is rallying on reports russia's state development bank be cut by eighty percent of the ny no fly lists. and the

currencies that was in the euro zone have saved the best appetite for risk pushing the russian currency over twenty eight rubles per dollar now the rule is lost a third of a percent against the greenback which is considered to be a safe haven asset and again pretty much the same amount as the euro on the session so its biggest decline in seven weeks so from business for now we will be back in fifteen minutes time with headlines to stay with her thing.